• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Right, but that’s not the reason it won’t print if you’re out of a color. Especially since you can still print in B&W only mode. Or you certainly used to be able to, but I’m still using the same color laser from >10 years ago for home use, and an old Brother photo printer for things that need to be higher resolution.

    If you use a Brother printer with ecotank cartridges, you can get an empty yellow cartridge and fill it with water if you’re worried about tracking dots. You’ll want to run a few cleaning cycles first to ensure that all the residual yellow is gone from the yellow print head.

    …Or you can buy a typewriter at a pawn shop with cash, and dump it once you’ve written the ransom note/bomb threat. If you’re counterfeiting stuff, you should probably consider the printer to be a consumable item that gets discarded and replaced after every batch.

    Also, not every printer made since the mid-90s does that. See here